Hursty’s Theme School – Episode 1

This is Episode 1 in a series of videos demonstrating how I make EmulationStation Themes.
I hope it is useful and my goal is to hopefully help people who have wanted to make their own themes but don’t know where to start.

Next episode I will show you how to copy the files to your Pi, and then together we will look at main menu backgrounds, wheel art carousel and game count (system info).

You do not always have to put Emulation Station themes in the standard /etc/emulationstation/themes location.
Emulation Station provides additional support for placing them into a different folder.
The benefit of using this different folder is that the default user “pi” has full read/write access.
You no longer have to be user “root” to copy over files or swap out files.
By default, this new “themes” folder does not exist, so simply create it.

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/themes

NOTE You can also access this same folder by navigating this hidden folder

As if this man needs an introduction, this is Mr Hurst, AKA, Hursty , the man himself, Without Mr Hurst there would be no pretty Retropie....PERIOD.... Creator of Hursty Themes, Theme Randomizer and so much more ! #mansalegend